On top of this, Briefly.co.za discovered that a great deal of former MPs stay in their state-funded homes indefinitely after their exit from parliament, even though they hold no political mandate to do so.

Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Patricia de Lille, has been given the difficult job of attempting to stop this from happening.

De Lille will have to try to remove ex-MPs from their palatial taxpayer-funded estates, which will be no easy task.

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